"ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50. A VERY FINE COPY IN THE SCARCER BLUE CLOTH.